Hoop Fan wrote:a quick glance at the TCU website shows they offer the following "athlete-friendly majors", several even talk about sports explicitly in the descriptions: Psychosocial Kinesiology, Movement Science, Nutritional Sciences, Physical Education, Social Work and Education. I don't think SMU even has a formal Education dept yet. This is laughable, no wonder they are cleaning our clocks.
Here's an insight into the real difference. At TCU, athletes are awakened about ten AM each morning by coeds bringing in hot chocolate, orange juice, bacon and eggs. After a quick massage, athletes head to the Rec center for a swim, and then by Admissions office where they sign off on a declaration that they were in class all day. Lunch, then a free afternoon when they can leave in their Ferraris for a movie, back for filets and lobster for dinner, then entertainment by a new cadre of coeds. Free time to use their complimentary iPads, beer and pizza about nine-thirty, then absolutely enforced bedtime by 11:30. At SMU, on instructions from President Turner, athletes are awakened by alarm clocks at six AM, up for calisthenics and oatmeal until eight, then classes in nuclear physics, Shakespearean english and advanced accounting until noon. Argula and rhubarb salad for lunch, then an hour or two of picking up garbage around the campus, a two hour nap time, classes in advanced anthropology and Chineese, Kraft dinner and bologna for evening meal, Bible study and devotionals until nine, required calls home to chat with family, and bedtime at nine-thirty. If the NCAA just knew about this, somebody's head would roll.